Why farmers still invest in wells in hard-rock regions when the water-table is fast declining?

From Headwaters to the Ocean: Hydrological Changes and Watershed Management - Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrological Changes and Management from Headwaters to the Ocean, HYDROCH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 503-508

  Palanisami, K ^a   Umetsu, Chieko ^b   Ranganathan, C R ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ground water; India; Irrigation; Overexploitation; Tamil Nadu

Indexed keywords

HARD ROCKS; INDIA; OVEREXPLOITATION; TAMIL NADU; TAMIL NADU STATE; TOTAL COSTS; WATER SAVING TECHNOLOGY; WELL FAILURE;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS; RAIN; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS; WELL SPACING;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 79952324039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Central Ground Water Board. 2002. Draft Report on the Working Group on the Estimation of Groundwater Resources and Irrigation Potential in Tamilnadu, Chennai.
2. Govt, of Tamil Nadu. 2003. Groundwater Resources of Tamil Nadu-Present Status of Development, Public Works Department, Groundwater, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
3. Govt. of Tamil Nadu. 2002. State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data Centre, A Profile of Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
4. Season and Crop Report, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. 1991-2002. Various issues from 1980-81 to 2001-02, Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai.
5. Haan, C.T. 1977. Statistical Methods in Hydrology. The Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
6. Lee, T.C.G.G. Judge, and T. Takayama. 1965. 'On Estimating the Transition Probabilities of a Markov Process,' Journal of Farm Economics, 746-62, August.
7. Palanisami, K. 2004. "Community Management of Groundwater Resources in India: A Case Study of Kodangipalayam and Kattampatti Villages in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu, BGS-DFID AGRAR project document, Water Technology Centre, Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.
8. Palanisami, K. and R. Balasubramanian. 1995. "Over Exploitation of Groundwater Resources - Experiences from Tamil Nadu" in Groundwater Availability and Pollution: The Growing Debate over Resource Condition in India, Marcus Moench (ed.) VIKSAT, Ahemedabad.
9. Water Technology Centre. 2004. Artificial Recharge of Groundwater in Hard rock regions, BGS-DFID ComMan Project, Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.
10. World Bank 1998. India-Water Resources Management Sector Review, Groundwater Regulation and Management Report, Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, New Delhi.